Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Asian, Theory
| Author: | A. Mohan | ISBN: | 9781137031891 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | July 24, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | A. Mohan |
| ISBN: | 9781137031891 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | July 24, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.
Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.
